Busy Quote by Kenneth Roberts

Misery starts with a person's reactions to someone or something outside of his or herself. In truth, it is not the event or situation…

— Terry Cole-Whittaker

Misery has only one meaning, that things are not fitting with your desires - and things never fit with your desires, they cannot. Things…

— Anonymous

“Misery is to happiness as cold is to heat- it rushes through the cracks and blows out the candle.”

— John I. Carswell

Misery is a communicable disease.

— Martha Graham

A misery is not to be measure from the nature of the evil but from the temper of the sufferer.

— Joseph Addison

What is misery? Not realizing your misery and mistaking it for happiness, I think

— Tsukihime

“So true it is, and so terrible too, that up to a certain point the thought or sight of misery enlists our best affections;…

— Herman Melville

“Misery is a routine you can learn to live with. It's like rain. Once you're soaked to the skin, you can't get any wetter.”

— Alan Gibbons

Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery.

— Edward Gibbon

“What causes misery is always trying to get away from the facts of life, always trying to avoid pain and seek happiness—this sense of…

— Pema Chödrön

Misery is evil; quarreling, a misfortune. There is only one possibility of avoiding both: a clear division of society. [Otherwise] the strong tyrannize the…

— Xunzi

real misery delights not in reproaches and complaints. It is like charity and love - silent, long suffering and mild.

— Lady Caroline Lamb